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A bow on view showing the US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) with Sailors manning the rails as the ship is assisted by two tugboats entering the harbor at Otaru, Japan (JPN) during a scheduled port visit. While in port, USS KITTY HAWK Sailors will have a chance to sightsee, shop, enjoy recreational activities and participate in community relation projects with the host nation. The USS KITTY HAWK demonstrates power projection and sea control as the USN only permanently, forward-deployed aircraft carrier
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Base: Otaru
Country: Japan (JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: MC3 Jarod Hodge, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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Date
01/07/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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